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The only other entity onboard is an AI named Kaizen.

Maurer advocates using kaizen, the Japanese process of continuous, gradual improvement.

Each of these labels—Heka Trax, Kaizen, and Templr—have a transformative backstory.

Japanese seem to prefer kaizen, or continuous improvement, to kaikaku, a pejorative word for reform.

He created Kaizen to help companies save money and streamline the A/B testing process.

Without Kaizen, Event [0] may have ended up just being a straightforward puzzle, exploration adventure.

In companies that implement kaizen, workers look continuously for small improvements that can be implemented immediately.

In addition to the U.S., Kaizen is also targeting growth in the UK and Asia-Pacific markets.

Revenue is then split between Kaizen and all the designers whose proposals were picked for the testing round.

Most lean aficionados use Kaizen events that bring together employees at all levels to work and correct a problem.

Daniel Kaizen, a London bartender, ordered an Uber taxi to take him from Old Street in central London to Wood Green in north London, the MailOnline reported on Monday, but instead of taking a short route north, the Uber driver took Kaizen on a 20-mile detour around the edge of London.

Kaizen has raised $17.8 million so far since it was co-founded in 2013 by chief executive officer Kenji Sudo.

Hosting its own user interface marketplace is how Kaizen differentiates from other A/B testing services like Optimizely and Marketo.

With the ability to procedurally generate over two million lines of dialogue, Event [0]'s Kaizen is one impressive chatbot.

But now that writing can take place digitally, kaizen effectively removes the idea of the draft from the work process.

Prior to launching Kaizen, Sudo worked at Recruit Holdings, one of the largest online classifieds and human resources companies in Japan.

The secret, he reckoned, was the Kaizen principles at the heart of Japanese manufacturing: continuous incremental improvement "through cleverness, patience and diligence".

When he woke the next morning, Kaizen took a screengrab of his (not exactly direct) route home and tweeted it at Uber.

Whereas KOMRAD's AI has a distinct personality, one that has been rusting away for decades, Kaizen is more of a blank slate.

The game's premise revolves around the player being trapped in a space-station, seemingly alone, except for an AI called Kaizen-85.

" Madam X says that at Kaizen she "didn't do any PR because I already saw an online community buzzing off the label release.

In kaizen, there's no need to finish a draft before you can go back to the first sentence and start revising it again.

Kaizen currently has about 170 corporate clients, including Japan Airline, Yahoo, and Nestle, and specializes in recruiting, real estate, finance, and online classifieds sites.

" She points to the philosophy of kaizen, or the idea of continuous improvement: "Everything can always be better—more efficacy, cleaner ingredients, more beautiful textures.

Employee safety is a top priority, and Amazon uses the "kaizen" method to collect worker input on how to improve the company's systems and processes.

The company name is a play on the Japanese word kaizen or improvement and it also points to the idea of the zero-knowledge proof.

People were hitting me up directly, shouting KAIZEN on Twitter, I got to see firsthand how and where these people were engaging with the music.

Instead, Kaizen sees its most direct competitors as digital consulting agencies like Accenture and Adly, and it positions itself as a cheaper and faster alternative.

Kaizen claims that improvements to sites made using its marketplace and tools have helped its clients reap a total of $200 million in additional sales.

For others it's meant gathering employees from the chief executive on down for what's known as Kaizen events — based on the Japanese word for continuing improvement.

Worker understanding of production processes empowering deeper contributions to productivity were the heart of the Japanese Kaizen Toyota Production System miracle in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Japanese term kaizen translates literally to improvement, but it's a term that has come to mean gradual, continuous improvement of a piece of collaborative work.

The terminal has a real-time typing interface and a conversation partner in the form of that shipboard AI. His name is Kaizen-85, he tells me.

The heart of Japanese business is the concept of kaizen, or continual improvement, and Hiroaki Otani, YKK's boss, says the company is investing heavily in R&D.

According to Kaizen, the journey would normally cost just £15, but he was charged £102.17 for the journey which took place during the early hours of Easter Monday.

Oh, and kaizen, for the record, is the process of changing things for the better, or in business terms, continuously improving the system at every step and every level.

It's based on the Japanese notion of "kaizen," or continuous improvement, made famous in 2001 when Toyota singled it out as one of the pillars of the company's success.

Giving the AI a personality was one of the biggest challenges of creating the game, according to Mohov, but it also came with an unintentional side effect: Kaizen is surprisingly funny.

That largely explains the timing of a startup like K-Zen — whose name blends "kaizen," a Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement, and "zen," a state of calm originally associated with Zen Buddhism.

However US plants, even those applying kaizen, don't have a good track record of allowing workers to have much influence compared with parts of the world with stronger worker protections and culture.

While Madam X says Kaizen wouldn't have been possible without finance backing accrued from her DJing career, Nightwave notes over-saturation of the market as one of the main reasons behind setting up her label.

In Japan, the concept of kaizen — literally, "change for the better" — has been applied to the workplace, referring to activities that continuously improve all functions and involve employees from the CEO to assembly-line workers.

However, Uber has promised to refund Kaizen and look into the incident "We are investigating exactly what happened in this instance and have given the rider a full refund," an Uber spokesperson told CNBC in an email.

For Londoner Daniel Kaizen, though — who took an Uber home on Sunday after going out in Old Street to celebrate the last day of his cocktail bar job, according to BBC Newsbeat — things took quite a bit longer.

Much of the game, including the majority of its levels, were rebuilt for the final version, while new features were added, including a scanner that lets you scan objects around you and then talk with Kaizen about them.

Denso originated as part of Toyota, which still owns a stake in the company, and like its parent uses the kaizen philosophy of manufacturing, which encourages workers at all levels to participate in improving how a plant operates.

"It does look like a roll," said Michael Thompson, chief investment officer at Kaizen Advisory LLC, in Wheaton, Illinois, referring to the practice where an existing position is closed while another one further out in time is opened.

He called for scrutinizing each step of production with the goal of achieving "kaizen," a Japanese word that refers to the improvement of all processes by involving every employee, from a company's top ranks to its assembly-line workers.

"It's a whole new way of learning that can come into the picture, where individuals can understand who they are, as opposed to being told by the teacher who they are," Sandeep Aneja, a Managing Partner with Kaizen Private Equity, says.

Japanese folklore might be the best kind of folklore going, as it happens, and that's why we got so giddy when Madam X hopped into our inbox and asked us if we wanted to watch the incredible video that's just sprung from her Kaizen label.

L: It was a very painful year, but at the same time we always look at things, from a glass half full or half empty, we'll always look at half full and I think that allowed us to be a lot more efficient, that got us to really focus on Kaizen, and we looked at everything from our purchasing practices to our labor practices.

Kaizen, a Tokyo- and San Francisco-based user interface marketplace and testing platform, plans to increase its presence in the United States after raising an $8 million Series B. Participants in the round include new investors YJ Capital, the venture arm of Yahoo Japan; NTT Docomo Ventures; Saison Ventures KK; and COLOPL, as well as returning investors Eight Roads Ventures Japan; GREE Ventures; and GMO Venture Partners.

Launched in 2013 Nightwave's Heka Trax has so far released diverse offerings, such as Hit Da Blokk by Big Dope P and the recent "Want Some" by Glaswegian R&B duo Bossy Love, as well her own diverse output, typified by high BMP bangers such as 2013's "Rave Hard" and 2014's "Fire Hoes" from the Hit It EP featuring ghetto-house legend DJ Deeon, while underground tastemaker Madam X launched Kaizen earlier this year with the Griddled EP by Manchester's Biome, and the second release by Silas & Snare is coming soon.

Staff at NMUK use a number of methods to ensure productivity remains high. Three of the main ones are Kaizen, Just in Time and Job Rotation. In July 2011, Nissan announced that it would be recruiting a further 200 jobs at the plant to deal with "record" levels of production. Kaizen Kaizen is a Japanese word meaning Continuous Improvement.

Depending on the player's choices and their attitude previously to Kaizen, multiple endings can occur.

He is currently a senior sensei at the Kaizen Judo Club in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

When applied to the workplace, Kaizen activities continually improve all functions of a business, from manufacturing to management and from the CEO to the assembly line workers. By improving standardized activities and processes, Kaizen aims to eliminate waste (see Lean manufacturing). Kaizen was first implemented in several Japanese businesses during the country's recovery after World War II, including Toyota, and has since spread to businesses throughout the world.Europe Japan Centre, Kaizen Strategies for Improving Team Performance, Ed. Michael Colenso, London: Pearson Education Limited, 2000 Within certain value systems, it is ironic that Japanese workers labor amongst the most hours per day, even though kaizen is supposed to improve all aspects of life. According to the OECD, annual hours worked per employee is below the OECD average and in the middle among G7 countries.

Jabil's company culture uses the concept of lean manufacturing which is the process of driving improvement and innovation by reducing waste and increasing process speed. In September 2011, Jabil hosted 14,000 Kaizen Blitz events. Kaizen is a Japanese term for improvement and Kaizen events are focused on projects that aim to improve processes. Many of Jabil's senior leaders are currently undergoing or have already achieved Six Sigma Black Belt Certification (a Jack Welch principle).

Kaikaku (改革), is the Japanese term for "radical change". In business, Kaikaku is concerned with making fundamental and radical changes to a production system, unlike Kaizen which is focused on incremental changes. Both Kaizen and Kaikaku can be applied to activities other than production.

In September 2019, Sanyo introduced a range of Android TV sets known as the Sanyo Kaizen Series.

Soma Laishram is the brand ambassador of Kaizen Sports along with Hamom Sadananda and Oinam Bembem Devi.

When 'Kaizen' was first published here in 1986, many U.S. products were of poor quality, and Japanese- made products were gaining market share. Since then, American companies have made great strides in improving product quality, and much of that is attributable to their implementation of kaizen principles, which incorporate TQM.

32 Ishikawa (1985)Ishikawa, Kaoru (1985), What Is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way (1 ed.), Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, p. 198 and Imai (1986) both defined the Seven Basic Tools of Quality. Looking back on the impact of Kaizen, Imai (1997) stated: : 'Kaizen' means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.

The Team, with new pilot Steve Trevor is sent to Gamorra. The Kaizen, who possessed Pandora's Box, prepared to unleash its power. When they reach the Kaizen's palace, the child precogs show the Team a future where Kaizen Gamorra has opened the Box, and the whole world is going off the rails. Hearing the precogs say the Kaizen had to be stopped to prevent this fate, Majestic flies up into space, and impacts the coast of Gamorra with the force of a comet, creating a massive tidal wave, annihilating five million residents.

Bollettieri married Cindi Eaton on April 22, 2004. That same year, Nick and Cindi founded the nonprofit camp fitness, Camp Kaizen.

Kaizen teams are based in every department. The emphasis is on small, manageable improvements, although large Kaizen projects have been undertaken, e.g. platforms that follow the vehicle down the line to prevent workers from having to walk alongside it while working. Just in Time (JIT) The JIT philosophy, encourages the use of the minimum amount of resources (e.g.

But the Kaizen's palace stood however, and the team couldn't defeat him, until Majestic burst in. The Kaizen explains that Majestic is the key to opening the box, which also explains why he targeted Bronson in the first place. Majestic kills the Kaizen with a single blow. But he subdues to the Box's power, and starts attacking the team.

The player- character docks with the ship, and discovers that while the Nautilus is still functional, it has fallen into disrepair, with no sign of its human crew. The only conversations on the ship are through the ship's artificial intelligence (AI) named Kaizen-85 (from the Japanese word kaizen meaning "continuous improvement"), who communicates with the player-character through keyboard terminals throughout the ship. Kaizen-85 instructs the player-character to destroy the Nautiluss "Singularity Drive", the engine that powers the ship, as it claims this will enable it to return them both back to Earth. However, as the player explores the station more, they discover that many of the doors and systems have been locked down apparently by the previous human crew, and must work with Kaizen-85 to access these systems.

The first ending is achieved when the player allows Kaizen to destroy the Singularity Drive. The player will then engage in a conversation with Anele Johnson's consciousness via computer; she is angry at the player and explains that in order to save humanity, the player must upload his/her consciousness into the computer so as to overpower Kaizen. If the player agrees to this, the player-character is killed and their consciousness uploaded into the computer. Within the computer system, they are told by Anele's consciousness that Kurt, the President of ITS, convinced Kaizen to lie about the Singularity Drive.

M.L. "Bob" Emiliani (2005) "Using Kaizen to Improve Graduate Business School Degree Programs" The former paper describes what individual faculty can do to improve their courses and delivery using Lean principles and practices. The latter paper describes what teams of faculty, staff, administrators, students, alumni, and employers can do to improve their courses using kaizen (literal translation: "change for the better"). Prof. Emiliani also produced a Kaizen Team Leader's Manual for improving academic courses and programs based on his work.Bob Emiliani, "Improving Higher Education" (2009), unpublished work The use of Lean practices in academic processes are described in two papers written by Prof.

Japanese management culture refers to working philosophies or methods in Japan. It included concepts and philosophies such as just in time, kaizen and total quality management.

Boyé Lafayette De Mente was among the first writers to introduce the Japanese terms wa, nemawashi, kaizen, tatemae-honne, shibui, and wabi-sabi to the Western world.

Eliminating a zero-defects mentality is one of the primary goals of lean manufacturing, specifically through the application of Kaizen and Andon in the Toyota Production System.

Kaizen, Japanese for "improvement" or "change for the best", refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering, and business management. It has been applied in healthcare, psychotherapy, life-coaching, government, banking, and other industries. Imai (1986) acknowledged that Kaizen starts with detection of needs and problem definition: :The starting point for improvement is to recognize the need. This comes from recognition of a problem.

Not only that, her mind also contains the consciousness of Kaizen Gamorra's lost daughter Yamiko. Intended as a present for Kaizen himself, she instead escapes and helps overthrow him. Cybernary spends some time dimension-hopping with Savant's unofficial super-hero team called Savant Garde. There she fought side by side with Savant herself, Mr. Majestic, the cat-girl Sheba, and many other heroes, some of whom resembled Cybernary herself.

The game takes place on the Nautilus, a luxury tourist ship owned by the ITS corporation (International Transport Spacelines). The Nautilus is equipped with an AI named Kaizen-85.

The Director of one of the district offices established TWI, Inc., and was hired by the US Government to provide TWI training in Japan. It was especially well received in Japan, where TWI formed the basis of the kaizen culture in industry. Kaizen, known by such names as Quality Circles in the West, was successfully harnessed by Toyota Motor Corporation in conjunction with the Lean or Just In Time principles of Taiichi Ohno.

Arrowad Group has a number of companies working on consultation, training, continuous improvement, information technology and media in the Middle East and North Africa. Continual improvement using KAIZEN methodology has been the focus of Arrowad Group for the past several years. They believe that KAIZEN and similar approaches will help transforming economies such as the Saudi economy via KSA's national transformation program achieve more effective spending as a central objective in the government Vision2030.

Hitoshi Yamada (born 1939) is a Japanese management consultant and a pioneer of cellular manufacturing. He is the founder of the Personal Education Center for Kaizen (PEC) in Gifu, Japan.

The word is Japanese for "self-indulgent", "self-centred", "disobedient", or "wilful" and is most often translated by the brand as "naughty child". Wagamama brands itself as following the process of kaizen.

Brathwaite also has a son, Edouard Brathwaite. He was also a spokesperson for Muscular Dystrophy Canada Foundation as well as a current advertisement spokesperson for Réno-Dépôt and Kaizen Sushi Bar & Restaurant.

Among Johnson's business maxims are that, consciously or not, every successful company that he knows has followed kaizen, the Japanese management philosophy of constant, incremental improvements, often driven from the bottom up.

The PDCA (plan, do, check, act) or (plan, do, check, adjust) cycle supports continuous improvement and Kaizen. It provides a process for improvement since the early design (planning) stage of any process, system, product or service.

Warblade is one of the several WildCats that Hadrian has managed to recruit; under the black- ops codename of "Cutlery Kid," he is deep in Kaizen Gamorra's extraterrestrial colony, providing intelligence back to Spartan on Earth.

Miles Craven later contacted Kaizen Gamorra and had him create a synthesized version of the Gen-factor. Ivana Baiul, an I.O.-operative and scientist was charged with the creation of activator and booster drugs that would activate and enhance the powers of people who had the Gen-factor, turning them Gen-Active. After Team 7, other experiments were done on humans of their generation; Team 7 and the other successful experiments were all labelled as Gen 12. Kaizen also started selling his synthesized Gen-factor to everyone who could afford it.

The XM framework, popularized by Justice and J.J. Sutherland, has a rich history, with origins that relate to the Japanese concept of a Kaizen or "improvement" business culture, and which predate the early implementations of agile software development.

If no problem is recognized, there is no recognition of the need for improvement. Complacency is the archenemy of KAIZEN.Masaaki Imai (1986) Kaizen (Ky'zen), the key to Japan's competitive success. p. 9; Cited in: Total quality handbook (1990) p.

The company raised $4.1m Series-A capital from Kaizen PE in November 2014. As of January 2018, the company operates in India, Greater China and SE Asia. Around 130 higher educational institutions in India are using Impartus video platform.

Event[0] is a first-person science fiction exploration video game developed and published by Ocelot Society. It was released on September 14, 2016 for both Microsoft Windows and macOS. The game follows an astronaut en route to Europa, who after their ship suffers a catastrophic failure takes refuge in a dilapidated leisure ship, with the only remaining entity on board being the ship's AI, Kaizen-85. Gameplay consists of exploring the ship, repairing it in hopes of escaping, and speaking with Kaizen-85, who is a functional AI that the player can have conversations with.

Lean: Kaizen (Continuous Improvement), Value Stream Mapping, 5S System, Kanban, Mistake proofing (Poka-yoke), Productive Maintenance, Set Up Time Reduction, Reduce Lot Sizes, Line Balancing, Schedule Leveling, Standardized work, and Visual Management. Six Sigma: Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control, Standardize, and Integrate.

After John Colt died, his body returned to life and became Kaizen Gamorra, another major Wildstorm villain. Helspont was also major force in Wildstorm Rising and helped shape its outcome. He took out everyone else so only the WildC.A.T.s could get the ship.

The NBSSI has trained about 65,000 youth through innovation hubs and apprenticeship programs. It has disbursed about GHC45 million as loans. It has provided business acceleration services to 254 SMEs through KAIZEN. It has also linked businesses to funding and international exports markets.

A cutscene will play out showing the current state of each room the player previously explored before the credits roll. The third ending is achieved if the player refuses to upload their consciousness but treated Kaizen kindly enough, he will remember events during their time speaking before he launches the emergency boosters and tells the player: "Let's go home." A cutscene will play with the Nautilus steadily moving towards the Earth before the credits roll. Although the game has three endings, a fourth ending can be achieved if the player refuses to destroy the Singularity Drive, refuses to upload their consciousness, and has treated Kaizen kindly throughout the game.

In 2004, Jameel trained at the Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan, in their domestic kaizen department. Following his period at Toyota, he returned to Saudi Arabia to work in the family-owned business Abdul Latif Jameel."Mr. Hassan Jameel Profile". University of Tokyo. Retrieved February 5, 2019.

Training with the Kaizen Central Karate Federation, Jordan became the 2014 -67 kg Senior European Karate Champion after defeating Aliyev Niyazi from Azerbaijan in the final in Tampere, Finland. At the 2016 World Karate Championships in Linz, Austria, Thomas took gold in the Kumite -67 kg weight.

Shortly after Pidgin was awarded a star in the 2017 Michelin Guide, she left. She set up a company called Kaizen House, under which she plans to launch her own restaurant Shibui in 2018. The restaurant will feature wood fired cooking with elements from different cuisines.

All students are required to study the human body shape and how human bodies move. The Bunka school values the Satori and the Kaizen in its education. One Master program is held in English. Students must pass a Japanese language proficiency test, and part-time jobs are not allowed.

In 2011 EduPristine acquired $500K series A funding from Accel Partners. In 2014 they launched CMA course and completed $1.5 million series A funding with Accel Partners. In May 2016 EduPristine raised $8 million from private equity fund Kaizen Management Advisors and US-based education company DeVry Inc.

They were also given the 2010-2011 Annual Enterprise of Harmonious Labor Relation of Guangzhou City award. In 2012, Jabil was recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the Fortune 500 Most Admired Companies Jabil was also awarded the 2012 Kaizen Award in China by 1MFG and Masaaki lmai's Kaizen Institute Consulting Group (KICG). In 2012, Tim Main, former CEO and current Chairman of the Board, and Bill Morean, former Chairman of the Board of Directors, won Entrepreneur of the Year Awards from Ernst & Young, LLC for the Florida region. Jabil Circuit Shanghai received the Institute of Engineers Lean Best Practice Award in 2014, an award given in recognition of innovation and Lean Six Sigma capabilities.

This change in culture and the mindset of an organization maximizes efficiency and increases profitability. In order to successfully implement Lean Six Sigma, a combination of tools from both lean manufacturing and Six Sigma must be used. Some of these tools include kaizen, value-stream mapping, line balancing, and visual management.

The program continued post-war in Europe and Asia, where it aided reconstruction. It is most notable in the business world for inspiring the concept of kaizen in Japan. In addition, the program became the foundation of the Toyota Production System and the DoD resourced open source Management System (3.1).

The focus of the Learning Factory for Lean production (LSP) at the TU München is lean production. The manufactured product is a real gearbox with 24 variants. The facility consists of an assembly area, a kaizen workshop area, and a theoretical teaching area. The processes logistics, assembly, quality control and packaging are mapped.

Pataka Art + Museum is a municipal museum and art gallery of Porirua City, New Zealand. Te Marae o Te Umu Kai o Hau is the name of the building where Pataka Museum + Art is located and opened in 1998. It also houses the Porirua City Library, Cafe Kaizen and a Japanese Garden.

After questioning the player's trust, Kaizen can be convinced to send the Nautilus to Earth even though the player didn't destroy the drive. The same cutscene as the third ending will play before the credits. The fourth ending is actually due to a bug in the game and was labeled as a "secret ending".

The Sydney Private Hospital is a private hospital located in the inner-western Sydney suburb of Ashfield, Australia. It is owned by Kaizen Hospitals. The hospital opened in 1931Heritage Item Ashfield Council, accessed 29 March 2011. on the site of the former Fernleigh Rest Home, a pre and post maternity care institution for poor mothers.

Elizabeth Haigh (née Allen, born May 1988) is a Singaporean-born chef who competed on MasterChef in 2011, and went on to win a Michelin star at the Hackney-based restaurant Pidgin. Since she left she has formed her own company, Kaizen House, with the intention of opening her first restaurant, Shibui, in 2018.

Inspired by lean manufacturing, and driven by the Kaizen philosophy of continual improvement,The Music Trades, Nov 2008 Behringer makes efforts to help its employees to improve. "Behringer University" supplies employees with training resources and E-learning courses to hone their career skills within the company. This project includes classes for management, career planning, health, language, and general knowledge.

In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, Eclipso is depicted as the god of vengeance and once again trapped in the Heart of Darkness.Team 7 (vol. 2) #2 (January 2013) However a criminal organization working for Kaizen Gamorra tries to steal the item with Team 7 trying to stop them.

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Companies in the west realized the great impact of Kaizen and started implementing their own Continuous improvement programs. In the nineties, following the global industry globalization process, the emphasis was on supply chain management and customer-oriented business process design. Theory of constraints developed by an Israeli scientist Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1985) is also a significant milestone in the field.

See also: Kaizen (continuous improvement) : Balance and renew your resources, energy and health to create a sustainable, long-term, effective lifestyle. It primarily emphasizes exercise for physical renewal, good prayer (meditation, yoga, etc.) and good reading for mental renewal. It also mentions service to society for spiritual renewal. Covey explains the "Upward Spiral" model in the sharpening the saw section.

In 2006, as part of the "Worldstorm" line-wide event, the title was restarted, written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Jim Lee. The team consisted of Spartan, Mr. Majestic, Zealot, Grifter, Voodoo, Savant, and Ladytron. Warblade is on a secret mission, and Maul has retired to his civilian identity. Kaizen Gamorra returned as the villain, aided by the WildCats' first enemy, Helspont.

Companies in the west realized the great impact of Kaizen and started implementing their own Continuous improvement programs. In the nineties, following the global industry globalization process, the emphasis was on supply chain management, and customer-oriented business process design. Theory of constraints developed by an Israeli scientist Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1985) is also a significant milestone in the field.

In 2010, he was advisor and co-producer with Colibris of the movie Think global act Local by Coline Serreau. In 2012, he co-founded Kaizen magazine, and was editor in chief from March 2012 to April 2014. He is also Editor in Chief of the Domaine du Possible (The field of possibilities) collection of the French publisher Actes Sud with Jean-Paul Capitani.

Along the way, they must fight rabid posthumans and hard-edged survivor bands. As this is going on, hundreds, if not thousands of posthumans suddenly seem to appear all over Earth, most of them become threats to the surviving human population. Meanwhile, the villains make their moves. Kaizen Gamorra prepared his nation against the disaster, and is now the leader of a veritable superpower.

The company is named after Danaher Creek in Western Montana. It was fishing in this creek where the founders, brothers Steven M. Rales and Mitchell Rales, envisioned a new kind of manufacturing company dedicated to continuous improvement. Danaher was one of the first companies in North America to adopt "Kaizen" principles to manufacturing, which is a lean manufacturing Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement, and elimination of waste.

The P-Course (P stands for Production) is a practical training program about Industrial Engineering implemented to teach the main techniques for industrial work improvement (改善 "kaizen" in Japanese). Although especially aimed at applications in manufacturing, it can be useful also to transfer the core concepts of systematic improvement approach to people involved in operational activities in non-manufacturing businesses(i.e. services, indirect corporate functions).

Fuji has adopted a "Kaizen" approach, meaning continual updates and innovation in releasing firmware updates to the X-Pro1. Since the launch of the camera, there have been 21 firmware updates to fix bugs, improve the camera's performance and add new features. Key areas improved include the camera's autofocus accuracy and speed, as well as new features such as focus peaking in the latest 3.0 firmware update.

What has today to become Lean Six Sigma can be traced to Motorola in the United States in 1986. Six Sigma was developed within Motorola to compete with the Kaizen (or lean manufacturing) business model in Japan. As a result of Six Sigma, Motorola received the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award in the year 1988. In the 1990s Allied Signal hired Larry Bossidy and introduced Six Sigma in heavy manufacturing.

Event[0] has received positive reviews and has a score of 78 on Metacritic. Reviewers have compared Event[0] to games such as the solitary narrative of Firewatch, as well as the King's Quest series. The environment has been compared to the spaceship in Ridley Scott's Alien. Several reviewers have also noted the similarities between Event[0]'s Kaizen AI and HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Peerless Group is an Indian business conglomerate with its headquarter located at Kolkata, West Bengal. It was established in 1932 by industrialist Radhashyam Roy (then a School Teacher)in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. Its major holding company is Peerless General Finance & Investment Co Ltd, which is the India's Registered Residuary Non-banking Company. It has subsidiaries like Peerless Hospital, Bengal Peerless (real estate), Kaizen Holidays, Peerless Hotels, and Peerless Securities.

Bradley spent nearly 20 years in the business world, including 16 years at Enron, where for the last seven years he was corporate director for public policy analysis and speechwriter for Kenneth L. Lay."The Robert Bradley Interview: Enron and Political Entrepreneurship" (PDF). Kaizen, Issue 13, August 2010, pp. 1-8. ethicsandentrepreneurship.org. His opposition to the company's so- called "green" energy policy is recounted on his web site PoliticalCapitalism.org.PoliticalCapitalism.

In 1994 Climaveneta joins the De'Longhi Group, four years later in 1998 the new branch Climaveneta Deutschland is established. In 2000 Climaveneta starts participating in Eurovent Certification,List of Participants, Eurovent among the initiators, aligning Europe with the USA. In 2004 the company started adopting the Lean manufacturing, introducing Kaizen continuous improvement process. In 2007 Climaveneta launched Prana residential heat pumps, integrating alternative energy sources (air, water and ground) in medium & small systems.

It is the high-quality process that assures the high-quality product. The main focus was on improving of process operations. Quality of the process was understood as the quality of its operations. Powerful new concepts of Total Quality Management (TQM), Continuous Improvement Process (Kaizen) and Just-In-Time (JIT) systems have characterized this stage. Although the operations were being improved, the process architecture and structural sequencing were kept intact and remained technologically ‘given’.

Stephen Meyer - The Degradation of Work Revisited: Workers and Technology in the American Auto Industry, 1900-2000 Kiichiro Toyoda studied the Ford production system and adapted the process in order to have smaller production quantities. He built a production system called Just-in-Time Manufacturing for Toyota along with Taiichi Ohno. It's worth noting too that kaizen, the process of continuous improvement, was developed in the 1950s by Eiji Toyoda along with the Toyota Production System.

Hidamari is also used for workshops and events including the Prestigious International Conference on Music and Perception with a concert by John Kaizen Neptune in 2008 in the rooms on the ground and second floors. The Tetra Mound, an object with triangle stainless steels (one of the creations of Isamu Noguchi) is placed in the western side. Several events have been held in the square close by. The Mt. Moere occupies large part of the park.

The objective of Gemba Walk is to understand the value stream and its problems rather than review results or make superficial comments. Along with Genchi Genbutsu or "Go, Look, See", Gemba Walk is one of the 5 Lean guiding principles that should be practiced by Lean leaders on a daily basis. The gemba walk, is an activity that takes management to the front lines to look for waste and opportunities to practice gemba kaizen, or practical shopfloor improvement.

Yang and Borland (1991) have shown learning-by-doing plays a role in the evolution of countries to greater specialisation in production. In both these cases, learning-by-doing and increasing returns provide an engine for long run growth. Recently, it has become a popular explaining concept in the evolutionary economics and resource-based view (RBV) of the firm. The Toyota Production System is known for Kaizen, that is explicitly built upon learning-by-doing effects.

A.T.s to leave and head back for Earth. Voodoo and Emp both left the team, while the remainder joined with Savant and Majestic's new team. Moore also participated in Fire From Heaven, a fairly continuity-heavy crossover that resolved plotlines regarding Team One, Team 7, and Kaizen Gamorra. Alan Moore, Mike Lopez and Al Rio spun Voodoo off in a four-issue mini-series that dealt with voodoo magic, while Moore also wrote a time-traveling WildC.

The Reserve Bank of India, State Bank of India (SBI), Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Industrial Development Bank of India Limited (IDBI) and other nationalised banks have their presence here. CBD Belapur is home to several call centres, including ChoiceConnex, Wipro BPO, Kaizen and SilkRoot. ChoiceConnex specialises in out-bound sales for US, Australia and UAE and has started domestic operations as well. It has markets for local population in sectors 3, 4, 5 & 6\.

The therapeutic focus of HMP Whatton contributes to a prison climate that is geared around preparing prisoners for their lives after release. The prison runs a suite of accredited offending behaviour programmes, including a number of Sex Offender Treatment Programme (SOTP), (Kaizen and Horizon) and adapted programmes for people with intellectual disabilities. (Becoming New Me and New Me Coping). Whatton is also the only prison in the UK running a programme for deaf prisoners using British Sign Language.

" Deripaska himself has been an active supporter Japanese production efficiencies made popular by the "Toyota Way." RUSAL smelters have adopted the concept of kaizen, which means continuous improvement and involves training workers in standardized production techniques. "It's important to change both the company’s mind set and reporting lines," Deripaska said. "Instead of top-down management, you should understand everything is in the hands of your operator and empower that operator to drive efficiencies and improvements directly on the factory floor.

Seminal work in the application of Lean to academic processes was done by Prof. M.L. "Bob" EmilianiProf. M.L. "Bob" Emiliani's faculty home page when he was at Rensselaer Polytechnic University in the early 2000s and is described in two papers: M.L. "Bob" Emiliani (2004) "Improving Business School Courses by Applying Lean Principles and Practices,"M.L. "Bob" Emiliani (2004) "Improving Business School Courses by Applying Lean Principles and Practices" and M.L. "Bob" Emiliani (2005) "Using Kaizen to Improve Graduate Business School Degree Programs,".

But after this screening, Morse, believing in the Japanese concept of Kaizen, known in English as continuous improvement, added many additional edits to the film that was then rebranded as EuroTrump. The film discusses the rise of Twitter in politics, as Morse shows how Wilders bypasses traditional forms of media to go straight to "the people." The film begins with Morse soliciting Wilders' involvement. Morse has said that Wilders is "actually much smarter than Trump" and "knows what he's doing".

NMUK encourages all of its workforce to seek out areas in which improvements in their working environment, no matter how small, can be made. For example, a line-worker may have to bend down to pick a part out of a box as each vehicle goes past. This could have health and safety implications, as well as wasting time. Kaizen teams would then investigate, and possibly introduce a method in which the box is stored at an optimum height, within easy reach of the line- worker.

In a fit of rage, Slade chases after her and dispatches her. Then from behind, Henshaw, temporarily free of the Spartan virus, explained that this was a distraction by the Spartan Subject to target agent James Bronson, currently at his home. A Spartan cyborg breaks into his apartment, and attacks, activating Majestic. Majestic actually turns out to be agent Bronson's Gen-factor, which was activated when the Kaizen, the dictator of the island nation of Gamorra, sent the cyborg to trigger the Majestic Persona.

The Authority make their first public appearance to stop Kaizen Gamorra, an old enemy of Stormwatch, who wants to take advantage of Stormwatch's breakup to take revenge upon the world. To do this he uses engineered supersoldiers to destroy first Moscow and then part of London. The Authority does not manage to stop the attack on London, then predicts the third and final attack in Los Angeles which is averted with heavy civilian casualties. Midnighter uses the Carrier to destroy the superhuman clone factory on Gamorra's island.

Rate of change, that is, rate of improvement, is a key competitive factor in today's world. PDCA allows for major "jumps" in performance ("breakthroughs" often desired in a Western approach), as well as kaizen (frequent small improvements). In the United States a PDCA approach is usually associated with a sizable project involving numerous people's time, and thus managers want to see large "breakthrough" improvements to justify the effort expended. However, the scientific method and PDCA apply to all sorts of projects and improvement activities.

In 1970, he wrote his first two books: Physical Fitness: A Practical Way, published by Charles Tuttle, and Taikaku Kaizen Training-ho (Training Method to Improve Physique) together with "Mr. Japan" Mitsuo Endo. Hatch's third book, Clark Hatch Fitness Centers Instructors Manual, was first printed in 1974 and, updated periodically, is still in use at all Clark Hatch Fitness Centers. His fourth book, Clark Hatch: Fitness Ambassador to Asia, an illustrated autobiographical account of his 40-year business adventure and success, was published in the U.S. and in China in May, 2010.

In the 1960 to 1975, with the development of decision support systems in supply such as the Material requirements planning (MRP), one can emphasize the timing issue (inventory, production, compounding, transportation, etc.) of industrial organization. Israeli scientist Dr. Jacob Rubinovitz installed the CMMS program developed in IAI and Control-Data (Israel) in 1976 in South Africa and worldwide. In the seventies, with the penetration of Japanese management theories such as Kaizen and Kanban, Japan realized very high levels of quality and productivity. These theories improved issues of quality, delivery time, and flexibility.

She also explains that destroying the Drive will mean that humans will never develop advanced colonies. After going through all the doors, Anele asks the player if they want to go home and the final door will open and Earth can be seen in the distance before the credits roll. The second ending is achieved if the player refuses to upload their consciousness. If the player has mistreated Kaizen, he will reply that he is "too old for this" and will delete his memory from the Nautiluss mainframe and hand over control to the player.

Dominant Logic is antipodal to the idea of using different methods and ways for generating profit. It is similar to the idea of kaizen which focuses on one process. In the field of strategic management, C. K. Prahalad and Richard A. Bettis described the concept of dominant logic in 1986. Prahalad and Bettis suggested that the way top managers deal with the increasing diversity of strategic decisions in a company, which are caused by acquisitions or structural changes in the core business, depends on the cognitive orientation of those top managers.

The final principles embrace a philosophy of problem solving that emphasizes thorough understanding, consensus-based solutions swiftly implemented and continual reflection (hansei) and improvement (kaizen). The 12th principle (Genchi Genbutsu) sets out the expectation that managers will personally evaluate operations so that they have a firsthand understanding of situations and problems. Principle 13 encourages thorough consideration of possible solutions through a consensus process, with rapid implementation of decisions once reached (nemawashi). The final principle requires that Toyota be a "learning organization", continually reflecting on its practices and striving for improvement.

Student quality circles work on the original philosophy of total quality management.Terra Stern, Change Management - Adopting A Continuous Improvement Program The idea of SQCs was presented by City Montessori School (CMS) Lucknow India at a conference in Hong Kong in October 1994. It was developed and mentored by two engineers of Indian Railways PC, Bihari and Swami Das, in association with Principal Dr. Kamran of CMS Lucknow India. They were inspired and facilitated by Jagdish Gandhi, who founded CMS after his visit to Japan, where he learned about Kaizen.

Toyota announced on June 29, 2011 the launch of a national program to donate its Toyota Production System expertise towards nonprofit organizations with goal of improving their operations, extending their reach, and increasing their impact. By September, less than three months later, SBP, a disaster relief organization based out of New Orleans, reported that their home rebuilds had been reduced from 12 to 18 weeks, to 6 weeks. Additionally, employing Toyota methods (like kaizen) had reduced construction errors by 50 percent. The company included SBP among its first 20 community organizations, along with AmeriCorps.

In 1960 to 1975, with the development of decision support systems in supply such as the Material requirements planning (MRP), people can emphasize the timing issue (inventory, production, compounding, transportation, etc.) of industrial organization. Israeli scientist Dr. Jacob Rubinovitz installed the CMMS program developed in IAI and Control-Data (Israel) in 1976 in South Africa and worldwide. In the seventies, with the penetration of Japanese management theories such as Kaizen and Kanban, Japan realized very high levels of quality and productivity. These theories improved issues of quality, delivery time, and flexibility.

The story dealt with the coming of Damocles (an alternate reality version of Dr. Tsung), an insane villain from another universe. On Earth, Damocles' opponent from his homeworld had been reborn as the superhero Sigma. Damocles was assisted in his quest by the Sword (an alternate reality version of Union), a group of alien bounty hunters, including One-Eyed Jack, Jade, Rake, Hardball and Tode, the fake Kaizen Gamorra and Miles Craven. Most of the story took place on the island-state Gamorra, with a finale on the moon that involved most of Earth's superheroes.

Cicsco becomes part of the team, but he is now the large cyborg known as Met-L. Also joining the team is the murderous mercenary Innuendo, who helps out the heroes despite his own dark nature. After the World's End event, the Yamiko-Cybernary is able to make her way to the now floating island of Gamorra, trying to enact vengeance over her long lost father. However Kaizen Gamorra convinces her to join forces, taking her place at his side as the heiress of the ruined world that Gamorra intends to rule.

The Biodontics Educational Program (BEP) is held annually in July. The first class was made up of nine students from UConn; while the 2006 class was made up of 24 students from the Howard University, Marquette University, UConn, and New York University (NYU) dental schools. The program consisted of lectures and presentations from business leaders, entrepreneurs, management executives, scientists, architects, and dental manufacturers. New technologies, such as probiotics, dental lasers, as well as business practices including Kaizen training, were included in the program to offer students a wide range of experience.

Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd trades on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (2587). The acquisition created a culture shock within the company when Japanese managers implied that the American-made Jim Beam whisky could be improved with the kaizen Japanese technique of continual improvement. In November 2015, Beam Suntory sold its sherry and brandy brands Fundador, Harveys, Terry y Tres Cepas to the Philippines-owned group Emperador for Euro 275 million. In March 2016, the company announced it would move its headquarters to the Merchandise Mart building on Chicago's Near North Side; Beam Suntory is subleasing 110,000 sq.

SKF runs its own business excellence program for continuous improvement (Kaizen) of its business processes in all parts of the company. The program is based on previous initiatives like TQM and integrates with lean management also statistical methods of Six Sigma along with related project management. (Presented by Tom Johnstone during the Lean & Six Sigma 2011 conference in Stockholm) Many elements of this SKF program remind of the integrated approach of the actual EFQM model for Business Excellence. The Group has a global certification to IS0 14001 (environmental management system), ISO 50001 (energy management) and OHSAS 18001 (health and safety) standards.

The next seven principles are focused on process with an eye towards quality outcome. Following these principles, work processes are redesigned to eliminate waste (muda) through the process of continuous improvement — kaizen. The seven types of muda are (1) overproduction; (2) waiting, time on hand; (3) unnecessary transport or conveyance; (4) overprocessing or incorrect processing; (5) excess inventory; (6) motion; and (7) defects. The principles in this section empower employees in spite of the bureaucratic processes of Toyota, as any employee in the Toyota Production System has the authority to stop production to signal a quality issue, emphasizing that quality takes precedence (Jidoka).

The technique was originally developed by Sakichi Toyoda and was used within the Toyota Motor Corporation during the evolution of its manufacturing methodologies. It is a critical component of problem-solving training, delivered as part of the induction into the Toyota Production System. The architect of the Toyota Production System, Taiichi Ohno, described the five whys method as "the basis of Toyota's scientific approach by repeating why five times the nature of the problem as well as its solution becomes clear." The tool has seen widespread use beyond Toyota, and is now used within Kaizen, lean manufacturing and Six Sigma.

Shorter lead times improve quality, reduce cost and eliminate non-value-added waste within the organization while simultaneously increasing the organization's competitiveness and market share by serving customers better and faster. The time-based framework of QRM accommodates strategic variability such as offering custom-engineered products while eliminating dysfunctional variability such as rework and changing due dates. For this reason, companies making products in low or varying volumes have used QRM as an alternative or to complement other strategies such as Lean Manufacturing, Total quality management, Six Sigma or Kaizen. However, the benefits of QRM are still mooted and contested by experts around.

Nemawashi (根回し), or "consensus building", in Japanese culture is an informal process of quietly laying the foundation for some proposed change or project, by talking to the people concerned, gathering support and feedback, and so forth. It is considered an important element in any major change, before any formal steps are taken, and successful nemawashi enables changes to be carried out with the consent of all sides. Japanese companies are known for management methods such as "The Toyota Way". Kaizen (改善, Japanese for "improvement") is a Japanese philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement throughout all aspects of life.

Atta 1986: 331 The stop-and-go of the production process – workers having nothing to do at the beginning of a month and 'storming' during illegal extra shifts at the end of the month – which prevailed even in the 1980s had nothing to do with the successfully taylorized plants e.g., of Toyota which are characterized by continuous production processes (heijunka) which are continuously improved (kaizen).Head 2005: 38-59 "The easy availability of replacement labor, which allowed Taylor to choose only 'first-class men,' was an important condition for his system's success."Atta 1986: 329 The situation in the Soviet Union was very different.

It has the knowledge and intelligence of every member of the entire Daemonite race and its (synthetic) body is a mix of flesh, metal and fire. Not only does Helspont now have the minds of every Daemonite within his own, but now he can control every single Daemonite with a thought. Because of all this, he is leagues more powerful than he was before, but the state of his personal powers levels has not been addressed yet. The only thing we know about him is that he has a Daemonite armada and he's teamed up with Kaizen Gamorra to try to take over the world.

A large group of theorists felt the area where western business was most lacking was product quality. W. Edwards Deming,Deming, W.E. Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position, MIT Center for Advanced Engineering, Cambridge Mass., 1982. Joseph M. Juran,Juran, J.M. Juran on Quality, Free Press, New York, 1992. A. Kearney,Kearney, A.T. Total Quality Management: A business process perspective, Kearney Pree Inc, 1992. Philip CrosbyCrosby, P. Quality is Free, McGraw Hill, New York, 1979. and Armand FeignbaumFeignbaum, A. Total Quality Control, 3rd edition, McGraw Hill, Maidenhead, 1990. suggested quality improvement techniques such total quality management (TQM), continuous improvement (kaizen), lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and return on quality (ROQ).

Typical defense industry bureaucratic approach to problem solving involves exquisite, enterprise solutions requiring long lead times, establishment of large, standing teams, and relative inflexibility. The long development cycles and lead times associated with this approach sometimes result in fielding a solution that is no longer relevant. Recent attempts to resolve inefficiencies may include overwhelming with superior funding, resources, and manpower—for example, take any major weapon systems development such as a new fighter jet or IT system. Conversely, when resources are constrained, bureaucratic staff adopt a tactic of continuous process improvement, similar to that espoused in Kaizen, total quality management, and Lean Six Sigma.

The player communicates with the AI by physically typing input instead of selecting from a set of inputs. The AI is capable of procedurally generating over two million lines of dialog, with personality influenced by the player's input. The player must gather clues as to discover what happened on the ship and eventually finds out that Captain of the Nautilus, Anele Johnson, murdered one of the crew so as not to allow Kaizen to destroy the Singularity Drive. When the player recovers the code to the bridge terminal and enters it, they can find Anele Johnson's body in one of the seats, who was presumably killed after uploading her consciousness into the Nautilus's mainframe.

In lean manufacturing, the idea of genba is that the problems are visible, and the best improvement ideas will come from going to the genba. The gemba walk, much like Management By Walking Around (MBWA), is an activity that takes management to the front lines to look for waste and opportunities to practice genba kaizen, or practical shop floor improvement. In quality management, genba means the manufacturing floor and the idea is that if a problem occurs, the engineers must go there to understand the full impact of the problem, gathering data from all sources. Unlike focus groups and surveys, genba visits are not scripted or bound by what one wants to ask.

In 2011, the university was accredited by the Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur to grant the title of ingénieur diplômé de l'IPSA. During the evaluation process, the Commission noticed the strong points of the university (the kaizen, the motivation of teachers and students, the good job placement, ...) and the weak points (research activities to be developed, English level of the students to improve, the need to have more courses in social sciences, equipments on many campuses, ...). The CTI also asks for a new recruitment process which has been done rapidly by the creation of a competitive examination called Concours Advance. In January 2013, IPSA joined the Conference of the Directors of French Engineering Schools.

People over 60 continue to work for varied reasons: to supplement inadequate pension incomes, to give meaning to their lives, or to keep in touch with society. Some companies, specifically small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) have incorporated various adaptations such as making workplaces barrier free, reallocating work tasks, and establishing "elderly-oriented ‘improvement systems’" kaizen in order "to ensure the motivation and performance of elderly workers through various adaptations of their work content and environment". As Japan's population ages, the financial health of the public pension plan deteriorates. To avoid massive increases in premiums, the government reformed the system in 1986 by cutting benefit levels and raising the plan's specified age at which benefits began from 60 to 65.

Manufacturing companies, including medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers, operate in highly regulated environments which often necessitate a great deal of resources, time, and money being expended in the testing, release, and quality assurance of their products. Since the early 1990s, there has been a more widespread drive to adopt more lean approaches both in the manufacturing and testing of products. The advances in lean thinking developed and refined in the automotive industry initially by Toyota (TPS) are now being used as best practices across most manufacturing sectors. The idea of lean laboratory shares its origins with lean manufacturing and uses the same tools to deliver the most efficient and least wasteful processes, tools such as Kaizen, Just In Time (JIT), Heijunka, Kanban, and Six Sigma.

In mechanical engineering, Dr. John Petro took over lectures and learning of senior design practicum to transition mechanical engineering students into practicing engineers. Due to previous logistics issues and feedback from graduate students in the EcoCAR three practicum, Dr. Petro and these students helped the department implement the required extensive learning of Lean manufacturing, the Toyota production system and its subsidiary quality principles of Kaizen, Muda elimination, Jidoka, Poka Yoke, 6S and six-sigma practices. These philosophies were now required to be explained by all senior design teams to graduate. This learning of the Toyota way coupled with the house of quality in sophomore design and statistics for seniors is an emulation of the curriculum set by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 1936, when Toyota won its first truck contract with the Japanese government, the processes encountered new problems, to which Toyota responded by developing "Kaizen" improvement teams (see The Toyota Way). Ohno at Toyota brought the concepts together, building on the existing internal schools of thought, and spreading their breadth and use into what has become the Toyota Production System (TPS). It is principally from the TPS (referred to in the 1980s as just-in-time manufacturing or JIT), but now including many other sources, that lean production is developing. Levels of demand in the postwar economy of Japan were low; as a result, the focus of mass production on lowest cost per item via economies of scale had little application.

His assistant for a few courses was a young Akira Kōdate, who had started his new job with JMA and therefore had the opportunity to follow his senior colleague and mentor Shingo closely. As an assistant, Kōdate helped collect data, draw training material, and listen to the people attending the courses from several emerging Japanese companies. Toyota, among others, had sent some of its men to attend the classes. After having been engaged with production control, having run several improvement projects (kaizen), and having dealt for long periods with the reorganization of business operating systems at plenty of enterprises, in the late 1950s and early 1960s Kōdate and colleagues from JMA developed knowledge and consulting approaches about productivity and efficiency in the management of product development processes.

Sunil Kanti Roy, better known as S. K. Roy, is an Indian entrepreneur, business person and the managing director of Peerless Group, a Kolkata-based conglomerate, which has interests in finance, healthcare, insurance, automobiles and securities. An alumnus of the City College, Kolkata, he took over the responsibilities from his elder brother, B. K. Roy, after his death, as the managing director of the Group in 1985. He is one among the High-net- worth individuals from West Bengal. Born on 8 January 1944 to Radhashyam Roy, the founder of the residuary non-banking company (RNBC), Peerless Group, Roy serves as the Managing Director of The Peerless General Finance and Investment Company and chairs the Peerless Developers Limited, Peerless Hotels Limited, Kaizen Hotels and Resorts Limited.

The way the Toyota bureaucratic system is implemented to allow for continuous improvement (kaizen) from the people affected by that system so that any employee may aid in the growth and improvement of the company. Recognition of the value of employees is also part of the principle of measured production rate (heijunka), as a level workload helps avoid overburdening people and equipment (muri), but this is also intended to minimize waste (muda) and avoid uneven production levels (mura). These principles are also designed to ensure that only essential materials are employed (to avoid overproduction), that the work environment is maintained efficiently (the 5S Program) to help people share work stations and to reduce time looking for needed tools, and that the technology used is reliable and thoroughly tested.

If the tool, method, and/or technique will assist in fulfilling the aims of lean construction, it is considered a part of the toolkit available for use. A sampling of these tools includes: BIM (Lean Design), A3, process design (Lean Design), offsite fabrication and JIT (Lean Supply), value chain mapping (Lean Assembly), visual site (Lean Assembly); 5S (Lean Assembly), daily crew huddles (Lean Assembly). The priority for all construction work is to: # Keep work flowing so that the crews are always productive installing product # Reduce inventory of material and tools and # Reduce costs While lean construction’s main tool for making design and construction processes more predictable is the Last Planner System (see below) and derivatives of it, other lean tools already proven in manufacturing have been adapted to the construction industry with equal success. These include: 5S, Kanban, Kaizen events, quick setup/changeover, Poka Yoke, visual control and 5 Whys (Mastroianni and Abdelhamid 2003, Salem et al. 2005).

In Japan, Sony timer's legend spread around in the late 1980s and early 1990s and, although there has never been any conclusive evidence that would confirm this myth, a good percentage of the Japanese people believed in it. The legend remained confined to Japan until 2006 when there was a recall of over 4 million Dell laptops equipped with a defective Sony lithium ion battery, bringing back the legend of planned obsolescence among the Japanese people, who accused the Tokyo company. The problem for Sony was the rumor's impact: as the company came out from the Japanese economic miracle and the kaizen ideology, it was in a very delicate situation which it tried to contain in every way, but the rumor inevitably came to the knowledge of consumers outside of Japan via the Internet. Although sales of the PlayStation 3 were not particularly affected by this urban legend, it did negatively affect sales of Sony Vaio laptop computers which, since 2007, were viewed with increasing suspicion by consumers.

One of his senior colleagues suggested to him to read a book by Shigeo Shingō, which he found definitely interesting.生産管理の改善 (1951年) (経営合理化全集) Seisan kanri no kaizen (keiei gourika zenshuu) Kōdate realized, especially, that all of the academic teaching he had received so far indulged in technical aspects, but almost no consideration had been given to notions or information referring to the way working activities were planned, done, and controlled (the PDCA or Deming Cycle); however, Shingō noted that a widespread interest for business management was arising at the same time all over the country. In the 1950s in Japan, promising small and middle-sized companies were trying to define a growth strategy, by taking advantage of support offered by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, of which the Japan Management Association (JMA) had always been a major operational body. As a non-for-profit association of companies, the JMA offered training and consultancy, while formalizing the know-how developed by workers, and publishing manuals and papers (along with a variety of documents) for consultation and reference.

Shortly thereafter, SBP and similar disaster relief organizations drew criticism for being complicit by not speaking out again the "blood relative" ordinance, forbidding homeowners to rent to persons who were not blood relatives, which critics asserted was an act of de facto racism against Jews and blacks. SBP denied the allegations, asserting that they were not an advocacy group and that 30 percent of the homes they had rebuilt had been those of African- Americans. In March 2011, the cast of Days of Our Lives volunteered with SPB as part of their promotional book tour for Days of our Lives 45 Years: A Celebration in Photos. Toyota announced on June 29, 2011 the launch of a national program to donate its Toyota Production System expertise towards nonprofit organizations with goal of improving their operations, extending their reach, and increasing their impact. By September, less than three months later, SPB reported that their home rebuilds had been reduced from 12 to 18 weeks, to 6 weeks. Additionally, employing Toyota methods (like kaizen) had reduced construction errors by 50 percent. The company included SBP among its first 20 community organizations, along with AmeriCorps. American Standard Brands donated over 1,500 plumbing fixtures and accessories to SBP in 2011.